The Delta independent., 1887-06-28
STATE NEWS.

LOCO volumes.
A 200-barrel-a-day oil well has been
struck at Florence.
A street railroad is being built In
Colorado Springs.
charter has been granted for the
Aspen military company.
The street railroad system of Pueblo
he ccruer stone of Pueblo's new
college was laid last Friday.
The population of La Junta has
doubled within the past year.
The Gilpin divorce suit at Denver is
be ng tried with closed doors.
The northwestern part of the State
is suffering from continued drouth.
The various mountain resorts are
becoming crowded with pleasure-seekers.
There are in Colorado 25o Sunday
Schools with %. .osO scholars and 2, 7s7 teach
ers.
Telluride is raising $1,000 with
which to celebrate the Fourth in proper
style.
The jury in the Sjogvist murder case
at Georgetown have found a yerdlc, Of
guilty.
The Midland expects to have trains
running regularly into Leadyille within
month.
The men employed in the yard of the
Denve, & Rio Grande road in Pueblo are
on . strike.
A large barn to cost 5000 is being
built ON the grounds ofthe State Agricul-
turai College.
The Denver base ball club was beaten
In three straight games by the Hastings
club this week.
In the lower Purgatoire river there
has been tremendous food, doing con-
81 !erable damage.
Abont 1900 persons celebrated the
Queens Jubilee In ST. Johns Cathedral,
Denver, last Sunday.
A large sum OF money has been
raised In Denver with which to properly
celebrate the Fourth.
Rev. II. C. Coates. the Evangelist.
Is holding meetings Mt Trinidad and meet
Ing with much success.
Peter Finer;y. well-known mining
man Of this State, died in Milwaukee few
days ago of Brigh,s disease.
Fifteen hundred teams are ut work
on ,hs new B. & NJ. line in Logan county.
Tho line will he finished to Sterling in Au-
January.
Track laying on the Denver, Texas
4 Gulf is going on at the rate of one mile
per day from Trinidad south. and a. the
rats Of mile and half on the Fort Worth
extension.
II is rumorcd tina, some kind Of
deal Is en- .oos assaween the apex and side.
line men of.Aspen which will put stop TO
further litigation and permit the mines TO
be worked To their full capacity.
Mr.. Richardson, the man who ha=
tie contract for building the State House,
has returned TO Denver. and It Is reported
that work on that structure will immedi-
ately be resumed aud pushed with vlgor.
A white shirt clotted with human
blood was foand on the mesa between As
pen and Glenwood Springs, and it is
feared another murder has been committed
and the body thrown into the Roaring
Fork.
The Sunday School Convention at
Greeley passed resolutions condemning the
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railroads, newspapers and ball play ers.
They also passed strong temperance reso.
luiions.
Larimer county can supply the whole
world and part OF Canada with the very
beet building. paving and tagging stone
and furnish marble enough to set head
stone 10 every grave made since Adams
tmc.-Fort Collins Courier.
Governor Adams has appointed un-
der authority Of the rev law which has
jus; gone into effect, board of control for
The state Home and Industrial School for
Girls. The new ofYicials are Mrs. j. l..
Rout', Mrs. C. S. Morey. Mrs. A. Jacobs,
Sister Ada and Rev. T. +. Carr.
The are about sixty applications on
on die for positions In the schools. Some
OF them are scholastic curiosit!es, and when
corrected with blue pencil and returned
10 tho applicants, no remarks will be neces-
sary on the part OF the secretary to explain
why the applicants were not employed
Aspen Times.
Not n day passes but from three to
seven whitc-top wagons pass through Ala.
mosa conveying settlers to this valley. This
valley is very fast settling up aud ere long
all The available land will be taken up. 1t
Is the best part OF Colorado to locate In and
has many advantages which make 1t the
poor mans paradise. Indepen.
dent Journal.
Residents of Capitol Hill, Denver.
arc very much exercised over petition
presented the City Council by the Union
Pacific railroad for the privilege Of laying
rails to the site OF the new State House.
The contractor, Mr.. Richardson, claims Il
would save him $4,000 In hauling the stone,
and owners of property in that part of the
town claim II would damage them to the
extent of million dollars.
The following officers were elected
by the State Sunday School Convention
held In Greeley this week: President Rev.
H. r. Wallace OF Greeley; frat vice. presi-
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